Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first Broadway producers thought that summer playhouses could be advantageously used to try out shows under consideration for the following season in town. Result was that three years ago 135 new plays were given rural premieres. But as time went on it became clear that limited resources of every sort, plus the abbreviated rehearsal periods common to all stock companies, prevented summer theatres from being able to give an adequate tryout. Nowadays, as a rule, only the least gifted writers permit their plays to be given a summer production. Significantly, of the 75 plays tried out by summer companies last...
...Idea, which crystallized into an Ambition. The Idea: that historians are mainly knaves or fools, have falsified the facts. The Ambition: to become America's best historical novelist. For years he had been "mousing around for something to write that would have my own sort of people in it." In 1928 he found it, gave up journalism, went off to Italy to write the first of his Chronicles of Arundel. By last week he had translated his Idea into five historical novels and had come within challenging distance of his Ambition...
Then there is Tomas, a big pot-bellied black fellow at headquarters, who is a sort of chief operator, or section chief. Officially Tomas belongs to the Avenida automatic exchange, quartered in the same building; but through seniority and an especially winning personality which he has, he really works his daylight shift in the public business office. Can't say how he spends his nights, but there's a night club next door. Tomas sometimes sits in the doorway to the Commercial office, facing the elevators; other times, he perches on the counter under the sign reading "Complaints...
...Duke and Duchess of Windsor will break up in less than two years. I base my bet on the letters, some 300 of them a day, that I have been receiving from women everywhere during the last eight years. . . . What Mrs. Simpson and the Duke did is not the sort of thing we would stand for in the White House. No American President has ever put to the people the question: Can I take another man's wife and make her mine? If he did we would be hearing from the General Federation of Women's Clubs...
...monkeys, horses, cows, and suchlike inhuman creatures, help them in a myriad simple troubles, and attribute the most charming reactions to them!" With a twinkle Wells implies: perhaps the Martians feel sentimentally indulgent towards us. Anyhow he still sticks to his hopeful story, Martians or no Martians: "A new sort of mind is coming into the world, with a new, simpler, clearer, and more powerful way of thinking. That I think is manifest. It has already got into operation individually here and there and produced a sort of disorder of innovation in human affairs...